Media misses the mark

Published: Tuesday, April 30, 2013 at 12:30 a.m.

Last Modified: Monday, April 29, 2013 at 2:26 p.m.

Editor: The Boston terrorist attack was an act of inhuman cruelty, and our prayers are with all the victims and their families. During the unfolding tragedy and aftermath, the behavior of the left-wing media, specifically CNN and MSNBC, was embarrassing and inexcusably slanted.

During the entire manhunt, MSNBC and CNN speculated loudly and often that the attack had been the work of a home-grown conservative terrorist. Chris Matthews was pathetically salivating trying to make the terrorist an angry conservative. Even after the suspects had been identified, these news agencies refused to admit that this attack was the work of a jihadist, despite Fox News and radio 94.5 reporting the jihadist Facebook post by the brothers. As late as (the night of April 21), no MSNBC reporter had mentioned jihad or called the attack Islamic terrorism. Remember the Batman theater shooter James Holmes? The "mainstream media" first labeled him as an angry conservative (it was later learned that he is a liberal Democrat). The same is true of Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber, and most other mass murders: angry liberals, not angry conservatives.

It is disgustingly obvious that the mainstream media has become an undisguised arm of the liberal Democratic Party. The reporters at MSNBC and CNN wanted this attack to be the work of a Tea Party member; the fact that no member of the Tea Party has ever committed an attack against anyone in this nation does not stop these liberal reporters from trying to make their political ideals reshape the facts. Restrictions on gun ownership is more important than restrictions on immigration to the Democrats; I wonder how many people would want a gun if they were locked inside their homes while a terrorist manhunt ensued in their neighborhood as it did in Boston. (Thanks to Obama's amnesty program, we now have 268,000 formally illegal aliens who have now been granted citizenship. The Boston terrorist and Nidal Hasan were granted citizenship as well. Feel safer?)

The fact is that 90 percent of all worldwide terrorism is caused by Islamic terrorists, yet the mainstream media seems tediously determined to portray every conservative as a terrorist. The truth is that most (if not all) conservatives are hard-working, tax-paying, law-abiding Christian patriots who love their country and honor the Untied States Constitution. Timothy McVeigh was a self-proclaimed atheist.

With millions being added to the welfare rolls and the culture of dependency being perpetrated by the Democratic Party and the ideals of multiculturalism and political correctness trumping national security, we may be living through the condemned age.

America cannot tax our way to prosperity or make radical murderers love us by sycophancy and denial. It is time to demand truth from our government and news agencies. The narcotic dullness of resignation and the idiotic trust in government to protect us is more dangerous than any terrorist will ever be, and the blind trust liberals have in the Democratic Party may prove fatal for us all.

<p>Editor: The Boston terrorist attack was an act of inhuman cruelty, and our prayers are with all the victims and their families. During the unfolding tragedy and aftermath, the behavior of the left-wing media, specifically CNN and MSNBC, was embarrassing and inexcusably slanted.</p><p>During the entire manhunt, MSNBC and CNN speculated loudly and often that the attack had been the work of a home-grown conservative terrorist. Chris Matthews was pathetically salivating trying to make the terrorist an angry conservative. Even after the suspects had been identified, these news agencies refused to admit that this attack was the work of a jihadist, despite Fox News and radio 94.5 reporting the jihadist Facebook post by the brothers. As late as (the night of April 21), no MSNBC reporter had mentioned jihad or called the attack Islamic terrorism. Remember the Batman theater shooter James Holmes? The "mainstream media" first labeled him as an angry conservative (it was later learned that he is a liberal Democrat). The same is true of Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber, and most other mass murders: angry liberals, not angry conservatives. </p><p>It is disgustingly obvious that the mainstream media has become an undisguised arm of the liberal Democratic Party. The reporters at MSNBC and CNN wanted this attack to be the work of a Tea Party member; the fact that no member of the Tea Party has ever committed an attack against anyone in this nation does not stop these liberal reporters from trying to make their political ideals reshape the facts. Restrictions on gun ownership is more important than restrictions on immigration to the Democrats; I wonder how many people would want a gun if they were locked inside their homes while a terrorist manhunt ensued in their neighborhood as it did in Boston. (Thanks to Obama's amnesty program, we now have 268,000 formally illegal aliens who have now been granted citizenship. The Boston terrorist and Nidal Hasan were granted citizenship as well. Feel safer?) </p><p>The fact is that 90 percent of all worldwide terrorism is caused by Islamic terrorists, yet the mainstream media seems tediously determined to portray every conservative as a terrorist. The truth is that most (if not all) conservatives are hard-working, tax-paying, law-abiding Christian patriots who love their country and honor the Untied States Constitution. Timothy McVeigh was a self-proclaimed atheist.</p><p>With millions being added to the welfare rolls and the culture of dependency being perpetrated by the Democratic Party and the ideals of multiculturalism and political correctness trumping national security, we may be living through the condemned age. </p><p>America cannot tax our way to prosperity or make radical murderers love us by sycophancy and denial. It is time to demand truth from our government and news agencies. The narcotic dullness of resignation and the idiotic trust in government to protect us is more dangerous than any terrorist will ever be, and the blind trust liberals have in the Democratic Party may prove fatal for us all.</p><p>Keith Bost</p><p>Lexington</p>